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F. H. UONANT.

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PatentedMay lZ, 1885.

INVENTOR WITNESSES 2%ZZA ZZ/ STATES PATENT Orricn.

FRED H. OONANT, OF GARDNER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HENRY HEYWOOD, GEORGE HEYWOOD, ALVIN M. GREENWOOD, AND AMOS MORRILL, ALL OF SAME PLACE.

' FURNITURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,732, dated May 12, L885.

Application filed June 30,1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED H. OoNANT, of Gardner, Worcester county, State of Massachusetts, a citizen of the United States,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in Furniture; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying sheet of drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in furniture; and the invention consists in attaching'or securingsections of rattan sticks to pillars and posts, as hereinafter particularly set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure l is a side elevation, partly in section, showing loose collars and tongues. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of same.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the two figures.

This invention relates to an improvement in the construction of furniture in which rattan is more or less employed, especially in the 2 5 ornamentation of the pillars, posts, and rails of furniture, when such pillars, posts, 860., are of cylindrical or polygonal section. To fix sections of rattan to such pillars, posts, 860., by simply gluing them is to attach them inse- 0 curely, for the reason that if the post is cylindrical and the rattan cylindrical, the one being tangent to the other, but small surface is afforded for the application of glue, and, besides, when the post is made up wholly or in 5 part of sections of rattan sticks these sec-.

tions are exposed to accident and displacement, and to nail them in place is in most cases simply to split them and in all cases to mar their outer surface or finish. Therefore, to construct the posts, rails, 850., of furniture in part of sections of rattan, and to obviate the objections above enumerated and many others, the post proper, A, is turned or in some other way worked down to the proper form 4 5 and size, and on it are formed collars a and I).

These collars are cut under, as shown at c. The sections B of rattan are next cut to the proper length, their ends beveled, as at (I, so

as to enable these beveled ends to be received into the cut-under part of the collars a and b. The post then being covered with glue between the collars, the beveled ends of the rattan sections are fitted under the collars 0t and b, and they are then fixed in place without further manipulation. The sections of rattan fixed to the post in this way are doubly secure, for not only does the glue keep them in place, but since they are necessarily somewhat bent in order to place their ends beneath the collars it is difficult to remove them from the post unless they are again bent or sprung outward, which is not possible when the several sections are placed side by side and glued in place.

As a matter of economy the posts, rails, &c., 6 5 may be made from some of the cheaper grades of wood, its entire surface being covered by rattan sections.

From the foregoing it will be seen that furniture in the construction of which rattan 7o enters may be made as quickly and durable as furniture of any other kind.

I do not claim fastening extraneous strips of material to furniture by means of collars secured to the furniture and engaging the 7 5 ends of such extraneous strips.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The wooden post A, having the undercut 8o collars a and b integral therewith, combined with the rattan sections B, having their ends beveled and secured to the post by springing their beveled ends into the undercut collars and fixing them by glue, substantially as described. Y

FRED H. CONANI'. In presence oi GEO. A. ELLIS, T. B. DUNN. 

